Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt by Minkin, Shana

Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal...
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Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt by Minkin, Shana

Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt

BD$142.09

Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt

BD$142.09
Author: Shana Minkin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule. Thousands of European subjects lived, worked, and died there. And when they died, the machinery of empire had to negotiate for space, resources, and control with the nascent national state. Imperial Bodies shows how the mechanisms of death became a tool for exerting both imperial and national governance.

Shana Minkin investigates how French and British power asserted itself in Egypt through local consular claims of belonging manifested within the mundane caring for dead bodies. European communities corralled imperial bodies through the bureaucracies and rituals of death--from hospitals, funerals, and cemeteries to autopsies and death registrations. As they did so, imperial consulates pushed against the workings of both the Egyptian state and each other, expanding their governments' material and performative power. Ultimately, this book reveals how European imperial powers did not so much claim Alexandria as their own, as they maneuvered, manipulated, and cajoled their empires into Egypt.



Author: Shana Minkin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/19/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.20h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781503608924


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2020

About the Author
Shana Minkin is Associate Professor of International and Global Studies at Sewanee: The University of the South.

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